1 July 2003

New York's currently: improving its home

Comedian Buddy Hackett dies at 78.

With its enduring popularity and ageless writing, The Golden Girls is a cable hit. Related: Sex and the City as Golden Girls redone?

Wimbledon: Mark Philippoussis comes back from three almost career-ending knee operations to beat Andre Agassi with a record-tying 46 aces.

National Park Service is selling boxes of Alcatraz Prison chunks.

Ducks and geese gone wild: Winged Migration.

NYC music/meat fans: Celebrate the Fourth of July with Bad Wizard, The Secret Machines, The Vue, Moving Units, Dead Meadow, Cass McCombs, Vietnam, and a mess of BBQ.

Burglar records burglary on cell-phone voicemail, gets caught. Related: German man provokes German shepherd into a noise complaint by using taped barks.

Iggy Pop and David Bowie on Dinah Shore.

Beethoven's Ninth, explained piece by piece.

Of the 11.4-million people who signed up for the do-not-call registry, three million didn't respond to the email confirmation.

I've just returned to Atlanta from a nice juicy road trip that included a bunch of classes at Central Markets around Texas including Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Plano, and Fort Worth. If you're not familiar with Central Market then you ought to stop by next time you're in the Lone Star State. Not only are they great markets, but they do culinary classes better than anyone. My ten gallon hat's off to them. Alton Brown has a blog!